WURV

WURV

City	Richmond, Virginia
Broadcast area	Richmond, Virginia Petersburg, Virginia
Branding	103.7 Play
Slogan	90s, 2K, and Today
Frequency	103.7 MHz (also on HD Radio)
Translator(s)	106.1 W291CL (Richmond, relays HD2) 92.5 W223AZ (Richmond, relays HD3)
First air date	December 23, 1961 (as WFMV)
Format	Hot adult contemporary HD2: Hot106.1 (Top40) HD3: RadioIQ (NPR, BBC)
ERP	20,000 watts
HAAT	256 meters
Class	B
Facility ID	37230
Transmitter coordinates	37°30′31.0″N 77°34′37.0″W / 37.508611°N 77.576944°W / 37.508611; -77.576944
Callsign meaning	W U RiVer former branding
Former callsigns	WFMV (1961-1969) WEZS (1969-1988) WMXB (1988-2010)^[1]
Owner	SummitMedia LLC (SM-WURV, LLC)
Sister stations	W291CL, WKHK, WKLR, WJSR
Webcast	WURV Webstream
Website	WURV Online

WURV (103.7 FM) is an American radio station licensed to serve Richmond, Virginia. The station is owned by SummitMedia LLC, through licensee SM-WURV, LLC.^[2] WURV broadcasts an hot adult contemporary music format to the Richmond/Petersburg, Virginia, area.^[3]

The station changed formats from adult album alternative (as 103.7 The River) to hot AC (as Play 103.7) at Midnight on September 24, 2013.

Current morning show - 103.7 Play Mornings with Melissa (Chase) & Jack (Lauterback) have won many local and state awards, including the 2013 Best Morning Show (major market category) by the Virginia Association of Broadcasters. They also were voted Richmond's Best Local Radio Personalities/Team from 2012 to 2015 by the readers of Style Weekly & Richmond Magazine.

The station started playing Christmas music on October 7, 2015 at 6:00am, becoming one of the first stations in America to adopt the seasonal format for 2015. 12 hours later, the station switched back to its regular format, revealing that the Christmas format was a prank.

References

↑ "Call Sign History". CDBS Public Access Database. Federal Communications Commission Media Bureau. Retrieved December 16, 2011.
↑ "WURV Facility Record". Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron. Retrieved December 16, 2011.

Sources

Fisher, Mark D. (2005). "A Brief History of WFMV: Virginia's first stereophonic good music station". Richmond, VA: Richmond Radio Group.
White, Thomas H. "Washington, D.C. AM Station History".

External links

103.7 Play Online

Query the FCC's FM station database for WURV

Radio-Locator information on WURV

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WURV

Radio stations in the Richmond/Petersburg market

By AM frequency	590 820 910 950 990 1140 1240 1290 1320 1340 1380 1430 1450 1480 1540 1590

By FM frequency	88.1 88.9 89.7 90.1 90.1 91.1 91.3 92.1 92.5 93.1 93.7 94.5 95.3 96.1 96.5 97.3 98.1 98.5 98.9 99.3 99.9 100.3 100.5 100.9 102.1 103.1 103.7 104.7 105.7 106.1 106.5 106.9 107.3

By callsign	W223AZ W241AP W253BI W276BZ W291CL WAFX WARV-FM WBBT-FM WBTJ WBTK WCDX WCFC-LP WCLM WCVE-FM WDCE WDZY WFTH WHAN WHAP WHCE WJSR WKHK WKJM WKJS WKLR WKYV WLEE WLES WLFV WLRJ WNTW WPZZ WREJ WRIH WRIR-LP WRNL WRVA WRVQ WRXL WTOX WTPS WTVR-FM WURV WVNZ WVST WWLB WXGI WYFJ WZEZ

Defunct stations	WHCK-LP

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